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Assessment of Environmental Behaviour Among the Urban Poor of Panjtirthi Slum, Jammu, India

Shehnaz Khan1 * , Arvind Kumar1 and Piyush Malaviya1

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.3.10

The present study is an attempt to evaluate environmental awareness and attitude among the slum dwellers. Results based upon dwellers responses to various questions on environmental issues revealed that majority of the respondents (76.19%) had score indicating high level of basic environmental awareness. Among the gender groups, significant difference between the basic environmental awareness level among male and female respondents was observed but no significant difference was shown among different educational and age groups. Similarly, majority of respondents showed a high level (86.81%) of environmental attitude.


Awareness; Community; Environment; Slum

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Khan S, Kumar A, Malaviya P. Assessment of Environmental Behaviour Among the Urban Poor of Panjtirthi Slum, Jammu, India. Curr World Environ 2015;10(3) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.3.10

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Khan S, Kumar A, Malaviya P. Assessment of Environmental Behaviour Among the Urban Poor of Panjtirthi Slum, Jammu, India. Curr World Environ 2015;10(3). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=12861